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The Warlock Insane by
Christopher Stasheff
Chapter One
"Yeah, but you don't have to shovel it!"

"Oh, come, husband." Gwen tightened her grip on his arm, mouth
pursed in amusement. " Tis beautiful by moonlight, naetheless. And thou
hast no need to clear it by main force, in any event."

Rod smiled, watching the kids frolic up ahead, carefully avoiding the
well-cleared road and slogging through the snowbanks, where they could
get nice and wet. Geoffrey had started a snowball fight, and Magnus was
retaliating with enthusiasm.

"Gregory's trying, anyway."

"He is merely distracted by watching the snowballs' trajectories, Rod,
instead of their targets." The voice of the great black horse behind him
sounded through the earphone implanted in his mastoid process. "He is a
son to be proud of."

"Yes. He certainly is, FessтАФhe certainly is." Rod smiled down into
Gwen's eyes, and she radiated back up at him. "They all areтАФeach in his
own way." He looked up with a sparkle of mischief in his eye. "Or hers."

Cordelia was standing by, watching her brothers with her nose in the
air, pretending to be above such thingsтАФ while she packed a snowball
behind her back, waiting for a clear target.

The moonlight was lovely, throwing the shadow of the castle's turrets
before them, glinting off the piled snow to either side of the hilly road, and
frosting the village below. Not that Rod could admit that, when he was in
the middle of a perfectly good banter with his wife. "But as to the
shovelingтАФyou're the one who's always saying we shouldn't use magic for
daily tasks."

"Indeed we should not," Gwen said with prim rectitude. "Yet thou hast
stalwart lads for the task, and thy lassтАж"

"Swings a mean broom, yeah. Okay, you winтАФI have to admit I like it.
Of course, I'm still suffused with the glow, of Twelfth Night. Tuan and
Catharine throw a great party!"